• She’s carrying on a long family tradition of craving the ultimate redneck appetizer: sausage balls. Ingredients: Jimmy Dean sausage, cheddar cheese, Bisquick. (We do the unthinkable and use the lite JDS. Don’t tell anybody. It still exudes much yellow fluid.)

• A common comment during supper: More! More! More!

• Tonight, she ate two toaster-oven-heated fried fish planks, which is an adult serving. Plus a cup of mixed veg, which my darling child ate in fine OCD fashion: First eat all the carrots, then all the green beans, then all the corn, then all the peas.

I also love sausage balls. There’s no OCD way to eat those unless you mean popping them in a single file line before the guests arrive for Thanksgiving, which has never happened.

The Jimmy Dean/cheese/Bisquick ratio is a personal preference, really. A classic combination is 1 pound sausage to 2 cups cheddar to 3 cups Bisquick. But we find that to be a little too bready. We also shun extraneous additions, like garlic powder or minced celery — need you really add anything to sausage and cheese?

After years of experimentation (and doubtless years off our lives, thanks to all that yummy saturated piggy fat), we’ve hit upon the proportions we’re happy with. But the recipe is at home, written down in my Thanksgiving notebook (don’t ask). I’ll put it in a post tomorrow.

Mmm, I was just thinking about sausage balls this morning, while planning a menu for when my family all descends upon my house on Dec. 20th . . . I’ll probably have to make a batch to keep for myself, those people are piggies.